Today in the News, 3.16.09
- “By applying methods blessed by conservatives to the neglected texts and forgotten framers of the Reconstruction amendments, liberals hope to deploy powerful new arguments to cement precedents under threat from the right and undergird the recognition of new rights” This weekend’s WSJ explores progressive originalism and the Second Founding, featuring CAC’s work to restore the Privileges or Immunities Clause to its rightful place as the constitutional guarantor of our rights and liberties, including through CAC’s brief McDonald v. City of Chicago.
- “State trials have played an invaluable role in backstopping an all-too-fallible F.D.A.: ferreting out corporate documents, compensating injured patients, and giving manufacturers an incentive to exercise extreme care in production and labeling.” The NY Times editors call on Congress to give patients the right to sue makers of faulty medical devices.
- “It is unfortunate that the importance The Times places on the Constitution’s advice and consent requirement varies with the occupant of the White House.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responds to the editors of the NY Times, who criticized Senate Republicans for threatening to filibuster President Obama’s yet-unnamed judicial nominees after they called for an end to filibusters during the Bush Administration.
- “So far this term, with the court announcing decisions in about a third of its cases, Kennedy has a perfect record.” Finally, the Washington Post observes the ongoing influence of Justices Kennedy, and Stevens, in the 2008-09 Supreme Court term.
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